This Day in 1901 Archives: June 1901

All stories from the Buffalo Evening
News, unless otherwise noted

June 1: Superintendent
of Education Emerson's long cherished wish has been realized and the Pan-American
Exposition has been made an adjunct to the school system of Buffalo. Yesterday,
on the first pleasant day in 7 days the pilgrimage of school children to
the grounds as guests of the Exposition company was begun.

Miss Ruth Driggs, the kindergarten
teacher of the kindergarten attached to School No. 19, and being located
in the Herkimer street annex, brought 27 little tots to see the wonders
of the two Americas. Miss Driggs was assisted in taking care of the children
by Miss Welch.

The children visited the
Government building and the other large buildings on the Midway. The little
boys clustered about Uncle Sam's monster guns and the girls did not care
to leave the cases where were displayed types in wax of aboriginal inhabitants
of the United States. One little girl said, "I ain't got no doll as big
as that."

June 2 Letter
to the Editor: I am surprised that Mr. Brandt and the ministers should
be so narrow minded as to think of boycotting the Exposition in order to
bring about any end they wish to attain. If they can not find some other
leverage they had better use none.

I contribute to both the
church and the Anti-Saloon League, and so does my wife, but before there
is another payment made I will know the ministers' decision on this boycott.
I have invested all of my surplus money in a modest Pan-American enterprise,
the same as hundreds of other church and anti-saloon contributors and if
our money is to be so misused as to make us suffer, I do not think I will
place any more in their hands to hamper the interest or everybody. It is
the duty of every citizen to do all possible to make this Exposition a
grand success and if there is no draw back such as the ministers have so
unwisely threatened it will certainly surpass any exposition ever held.

I have been too busy to investigate
and study the situation personally, but whatever the condition or circumstances
may be they will not warrant any one in boycotting this exposition.

June 3: Director-General
Buchanan has sent formal notice to all the competitors in the coming fireworks
contest announcing the dates for their respective exhibitions. This is
the competition which is to determine who is to get the contract for the
official displays of the Exposition. Up to this time the fireworks have
been given under a special arrangement with Pain of Manhattan Beach fame.

The first display will be
Monday, June 10, by Thomas Lloyd. Following this on Friday, June 14, the
Rochester Fireworks Company will have the field. Then comes in order the
T.W. Hand Fireworks Company on Monday, June 17, the A.L. Due Fireworks
Company on Saturday, June 29, the Pan-American Fireworks Company of Buffalo
on Monday, July 1, and the H.H. Tilton Company and the Pain Fireworks Company
for which no dates have been assigned. All of these dates are dates of
special days, and there are sure to be big crowds on the grounds to enjoy
the show.

June 4: The
royal purple of Williams College was the first to make its appearance for
the Intercollegiate games in the Stadium at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Then
the bonnie blue of Yale was seen, after which came the Carnelian and white
of Cornell, the orange and black of Princeton and the purple and white
of Amherst. College men began flocking into the Stadium by scores until
at 2 o'clock there were hundreds of them all wearing the chosen colors
of their respective alma mater.

At that hour the Stadium
and its approaches were still in the hands of laborers working with feverish
eleventh hour energy to get things in shape. The sodders had laid out but
a little plot of green before the Tribune, the only oasis of green in the
desert of yellow clay. The track was slightly sticky, but drying fast.
"Sparrow" Robinson said it was fit for anybody.

The weather realized all
the promise of the morning. The sun shone from a cloudless sky. In the
unprotected bleachers its heat was almost unbearable. The fair sex opened
up sun umbrellas to the discontent of those behind them. The flags were
all aflutter and the seats began to fill rapidly as 2 o'clock approached.
The college boys whiled away the wait by whacking the floor with their
canes and breaking into snatches of college songs, diversified with references
to the Midway. Yale men tried to secure Bostock's elephant, "Big Liz",
with the intention of viewing the sports from her back. Princeton lads
tried the same game with "Lil", the elephant of the Streets of Cairo, but
the negotiations fell through.

June 5: The condition
of Teddy Olivio, the one-armed trick bicycle rider, who was injured in
an unsuccessful attempt to dive 50 feet on a bicycle in the Wild Water
Sports concession on the Midway Monday afternoon, was very low this morning
and the doctors at the General Hospital fear he will die before night.
Olivio was examined by the surgeons last night and it was found his back
was broken just below the neck and he was badly injured internally.
[ed. note: he died on June 27]

June 6: With
the completion today of he calaboose for the accommodation of crooks the
Exposition has taken a long stride nearer completion. Hitherto it has had
beautiful buildings, lovely lawns, sparkling fountains, well-paved streets
and well-regulated police and fire department. But it had no prison, and
whoever read of any municipality, except the new Jerusalem and that was
only seen in a vision, that was without a jail. When the crooks and other
"strong-arm men", who came here from other cities, were gathered in by
the Pan-American patrolmen, an officer was obliged to sit with them until
a patrol wagon could be summoned from the Austin Street station house.
The effect of such association upon the lordly patrolman in his full dress
uniform was distinctly harassing.

Now, however, all this is
changed. The necessary cooler is built. It is located in the inner court
of the Service Building near the northwest corner. It consists of two cells
which are entered from a passage opening upon the corridor in front of
Commandant Robertson's headquarters. The door into the passage is of two-inch
oak planks held together two-inch crosspieces and strongly bolted, the
heads of the bolts being on the inside. There is a grating in the door
defended by four one-inch bars of iron. Rajah's quarters at Bostock's are
a bird cage compared with the strength of this strong room.

Within a few days the Pan-American
Police Department will have an electric patrol wagon of its own. Then the
Rainbow City will have one of the most up-to-date crook-catching departments
in the world.

June 7: Within a very few
days visitors at the Exposition may take elevators to the top of the Howard
Electric Tower. J. Hunter of New York, representing the Otis Elevator Company,
this morning began the instructing of the operators who are to run the elevators.
So soon as the force of young men have learned to run the cars, the tower will
be thrown open to the public.

There are four elevators
in the building, two of which run to a height of 72 feet to the cafe floor
of the tower and the other two to the uppermost landing, 242 feet above
the ground. From this point stairs can be taken to a higher floor, constructed
at an elevation of 310 feet above the ground. From this landing, the visitor
gets a true bird's-eye view of the Exposition. Men and women, like tiny
dwarfs, walk about among toy fountains and visit doll houses. It is a unique
and interesting way to see the Exposition.

The final government inspection
of the elevators was made yesterday. Each car was loaded with 3000 pounds
of iron and the dropped. Despite the heavy weight, the cars stopped almost
instantly. The appliances to prevent accidents worked perfectly. These
are threefold. An automatic governor, a limit speed automatic switch and
an automatic appliance for controlling the cables in the basement are any
of them sufficient to prevent all possibility of a fall.

The cars make the trip from
the ground to the top landing in about 30 seconds. They are built to run
at the rate of 450 feet a minute and are so constructed that they automatically
stop at the top and bottom.

June 8 Letter to the Editor:
Can not the sale of the small chameleons, which is going on at the gate of the
Exposition, be stopped by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals?
These animals are certainly abused, getting into the hands of people who are
thoughtless, and are starved, few knowing what to feed them.

June 8: Commander J.H. Bull, of
the United States Navy, in charge of the Hydrographic service on the grounds,
fell from the dome of the Government Building at noon today and is probably
fatally hurt. He sustained a fracture of the skull above the left eye and broke
his left leg. He was unconscious when picked up.

Commander Bull was walking along the base of the dome to inspect
the time bell apparatus. A member of the Marine Corps who was with him, saw
him slip and fall to the roof, 30 feet below. Help was summoned and the commander
was taken below to the building. The Emergency Hospital ambulance was summoned.

June 9:
That moment which hundreds and thousands of Buffalonians have looked forward
to for the past year, and particularly the men who have had the work of construction
in charge, is at hand. Visitors to the grounds today saw a completed Exposition
in the central, main features of the great show. With those gigantic strides
which have been the wonder of the Exposition development, the Pan-American has
received a sandpaper finish virtually in one week. That is, the pavements have
been repaired, the walks graded, the buildings touched up, and the hundred and
one small details, necessary to put things to right, have been attended to.
It can readily be seen that with these major details out of the way the entire
work force of the Exposition will make short work of trimming up the edges and
the outskirts.

The elevators in the great
electric tower were in operation, running to the 278-foot level. In five
hours 1000 people were carried up at 15 cents each. Patrons of the tower
were extravagant in their praise of the view. Niagara Falls could be seen
with the naked eye. In every direction the view was expansive and magnificent.
This promises to be one of the most attractive features of the big show.

June 10: John Philip
Sousa has written a march expressly for the Pan-American Exposition, and
it will be a feature of the Sousa concerts at the Exposition beginning
today and lasting until July 7.

Once a year Sousa writes
a march and in the springtime the dance devotees and the soldiery of the
United States are accustomed to look for this new tribute of melody from
the pen of "The March King". The new march is the fourth of a cycle of
Exposition marches written by Sousa during the last eight years. The first
was the famous "Liberty Bell", which was composed in honor of the Chicago
World's Fair. Later came "King Cotton", written for the Cotton States Exposition
in Atlanta. The third was "Hail to the Spirit of Liberty", composed in
honor of the Paris Exposition of last year, and now comes "The Invincible
Eagle", for the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo.

June 10: Lieutenant-Commander James
A. Bull, U.S.N., who fell from the dome of the Government Building at the Pan-American
last Saturday morning, sustaining serious injuries, and was later removed to
the General Hospital in an unconscious condition, regained consciousness early
this morning. The surgeons at the hospital say he is doing nicely and will recover.
This will be gratifying news to his many friends.

June 11: The
following statement has been given out at the White House -

"I regret the suggestion
of a third term has been made. I doubt whether I am called upon to give
it notice. But there are now questions of the gravest importance before
the Administration and the country, and their just consideration should
not be prejudiced in the public mind by even the suspicion of the thought
of a third term. In view, therefore, of the reiteration of the suggestion
of it, I will say now, once for all, expressing a long-settled conviction,
that I not only am not and will not be a candidate for a third term, but
would not accept a nomination for it, if it were tendered me.

"My only ambition is to serve
through my second term to the acceptance of my countryman, whose generous
confidence I so deeply appreciate, and then with them to do my duty in
the ranks of private citizenship.
(signed) William McKinley

June 12: Roses
budding into bloom in the lawns about the Women's building and in the Rose
Garden, a cloudless sky and a sun shining like burnished copper and as
ardent in its caresses as a June bridegroom - these are the chief characteristics
of out-door life at the Exposition this morning.

In this magnificent stage
setting a varied programme of amusement is arranged, including drills by
the 73rd Company of Artillery, the pony battery, the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute, the crew of the Life-saving station, concerts by Sousa's, the
Mexican, 74th Regiment and 65th Regiment Bands, organ recital on the mammoth
instrument in the Temple of Music, the 1001 sights in the grounds and buildings
and the panoramic procession of Fun and Folly in the Midway. Shakespeare
never caught even a glimpse of such wonders in the visions of a summer
night's dream.

With the view of making the
main entrance of the Exposition grounds more popular, the Exposition Company
has granted the West Side Wagnonette Company the right to operate between
the Lincoln gate and the Meadow Gate, passing the Washington monument,
the Triumphal Arch, the Esplanade and the Art Building, and landing passengers
in the center of the grounds.

The main entrance has not
been used much because of the long walk entailed, but the privilege granted
to the company mentioned removes that objection and will, no doubt, cause
many to use of the main rather than the "back door" entrance.

June 13: The Indians
belonging to the Six Nations village have begun to arrive. The opening
of the village will take place between the 20th and 25th of June, when
the historic Strawberry Dance will be given. This is one of the stated
feasts of the pagan Indians of New York State.

Every visitor will be presented
with a dish of strawberries, sweetened with diluted maple sugar as the
Indians return thanks to the Great Spirit for the abundance of the earth.
Capt. Lawton intends to make the ceremony an impressive one, and has sent
invitations by runners to all the Indians on the reservations around here.

The village is now looking
highly attractive. The ground in the neighborhood has been broken up and
planted with maize, beans, squashes and Indian tobacco, after the manner
of the Indian villages of New York in the days of the early settlers.

June 14: Flag
Day address by U.S. Secretary of State John Hay -

"I am inclined to think that
perhaps the waiters and waitresses and some of the rest might be better
employed in exchanging ideas among themselves than in listening to the
few words that I shall be able to say.

Last night, as I looked from
my window at this marvelous creation, lined in fire upon the evening sky,
and today as I have walked through the courts and the palaces of this incomparable
exhibition, the words of the prophet have been constantly in my mind -
Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. We who
are old have through many hopeful years dreamed this dream. It was noble,
inspiring, leading to earnest and uplifting labor. This ideal of the brotherhood
of the nations of the Western World is not a growth of yesterday. It was
heralded when the country was young by the clarion voice of Henry Clay.
It was cherished by Seward and Evarts, by Douglas and by Blaine.
Twelve years ago we had the first reunion of the two American republics.
Much was said and done, destined to be memorable in our history, opening
and blazing the way along the path of peace and fraternal relations…

As a means to those ends,
as a concrete realization of those generous dreams which have led us thus
far, we have this grand and beautiful spectacle, never to be forgotten,
a delight to the eyes, a comfort to every patriot heart that during the
coming summer shall make the joyous pilgrimage to this enchanted scene,
where lake and shore and sky, the rich, bright city throbbing with vigorous
life, and in the distance the flash and roar of the stupendous cataract,
unite their varied attractions in one charm of powerful magic such as the
world has seldom seen....

All the triumphs of the spirit
and of the skilled hands of labor, the garnered treasures of science, the
witcheries of art, the spoils of earth and air and sea are gathered here
to warn, to delight, to encourage and reward the ever-striving, the indomitable
mind of man. Here you have force, which enables men to conquer and tame
the powers of nature. Wealth, not meant as Tennyson sang, to rest in moulded
heaps, but smit with the free light to melt and fatten lower lands. Beauty,
not for selfish gratification of the few, but for the joy of the many to
fill their days with gladness and their nights with music. And hovering
over all the sublime, the well-nigh divine conception of a brotherhood
of mutually helpful nations, fit harbinger and forerunner of a brotherhood
of man...

Every great achievement in
art, in science, in commerce communicates to the universal human spirit
a salutary shock which in ever-widening circles spreads to regions the
most remote and obscure, to break at last in lingering ripples on the ultimate
shores of space and time. Out of a good source evil cannot flow, out of
the light darkness cannot be born. The benignant influences that shall
emanate from this great festival of peace shall not be bounded by oceans
nor by continents.

June 15: Flag Day
was attended with ideal conditions for the symposium of the Starry Banner.
A brisk breeze blows across the grounds, relieving the atmosphere of the
torridness that has characterized the two preceding days. In the early
morning the heavens were obscured by clouds, but as day advanced they were
broken up by the arrows of the sun and carried off the ethereal field by
the wind.

How "Old Glory" exulted in
the attention paid to him! The 100-foot long flag stretched between the
pylons of the Triumphal Bridge appeared to represent in itself The Flag,
and to conceive all the honors of the occasion as being addressed particularly
to itself. How joyously it danced in the breeze, now swelling up pompously
as the wind filled out its folds, and anon sweeping back right debonnairely
as if returning the salutations of the passersby.

All the other flags participated
in the festivities, in a smaller way. The American Flag was everywhere.
It climbed the flag staffs and drove thence the Pan-American emblem. It
scaled the towers of the buildings and supplanted colors of other nations.
It seemed to say, "I'm the flag of the United States, don't stop me. I've
scaled the walls of Pekin. I dominate the Philippines, Porto Rico and the
Sandwich Islands recline under my protection. I'm the only flag in the
world here today. All give way to me."

Allured by the bright weather
and by the knowledge that such notables as Lieut-Gen. Nelson A. Miles,
Secretary of State John Hay, Capt. Richmond P. Hobson were to be on the
grounds, thousands of visitors arrived early and spent the morning hours
in various enjoyable ways. The attendance increased in the afternoon and
everything conspired to make the Flag Day the most splendidly impressive
and imposing in the history of the occasion.

An immense throng filled
the Temple of Music when the ceremonies began at 2:20 o'clock...with an
overture by Sousa's Band which introduced "My Country 'Tis of Thee," the
entire audience rising to sing the National Hymn. This was followed by
a prelude on the grand organ and harp. Rt. Rev. William Walker, Bishop
of Western New York, then delivered the invocation. President Milburn of
the Pan-American Company delivered his address to the patriotic societies
and a quartet sang "To Thee, O Country."

Mrs. Mary N. Thompson, Regent
of the Buffalo Chapter, D.A.R., delivered her address of welcome. This
was followed by an address by Joseph E. Ewell on behalf of the G.A.R. To
these Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks, national president of the D.A.R. responded.
Mr. Robert Burton sang a solo, which was followed by the address of Gen.
Nelson A. Miles, representing the army.

Sousa's Band then played
a selection, and Capt. Richmond Pierson Hobson, representing the navy,
made a short speech. Mr. Robert Burton then sang "The Star-Spangled Banner,"
and Bishop Walker brought the ceremonies to a close with the benediction.

June 16: Notes of
the Exposition -

One of the baby ostriches
in the ostrich farm at the Exposition broke its leg last Sunday night.
It is worth $150 and, despairing of saving it in any other way, it was
finally taken to the hospital. There Dr. Allan of the staff set the leg
and the youngster is reported to be doing well. The bird accepts the attention
it is receiving with excellent grace.

A company of nearly 100 came
to join the village of Darkest Africa in the Pan-American yesterday. They
were collected in Senegal and the Congo state and are so black that ordinary
jet seems white, or nearly so, beside them. Their habits, when in the seclusion
of their private enclosure are of Edenic simplicity, and even beyond that,
Chief Ogendaza is the leader of the party. He came accompanied by only
three of his 50 wives.

A large white Esquimaux dog,
which escaped from the Esquimaux Village in the Midway, was the cause of
much excitement in the north end of that thoroughfare shortly after 9 o'clock
on the 11th. The escaped animal ran about for fully an hour before being
placed in captivity again.

William L. Marcy gave a dinner
on the 11th at the Alt Nurnburg to the Judges of the Court of Appeals and
a few invited guests. There were 22 in the party. The table was laid in
the side corridor of the restaurant and there was a wealth of flowers employed
in the decoration.

June 17 Editorial:
"The one great menace to the success of the Pan-American at Buffalo," says
a critical exchange, "is the entire absence of a long-felt want for its
existence. Why should there be a Pan-American Fair at all, or why should
Buffalo be he such of such an enterprise?"

Why should there be a Pan-American
Exposition at all is a question which the writer of that article will find
most effectively answered by visiting the exhibit buildings of Mexico,
Chili, Honduras, and other countries making up the "Pan" of the title.
Those nations have found or think they have found sufficient justification
in their own development and in the suggestion of a grouping of all the
Americas in a representative fair to build costly structures and send valuable
examples of their productions thousands of miles and maintain representative
bodies here to impress visitors with the significance of what is presented
to the world in their behalf. If there were no need - we will not say "crying
need" - for such an exhibition, if no justification could be found in events
and conditions, is it likely they would have made such a splendid showing
at such expense?

Then why should such an exposition
be at Buffalo? For one reason, because the first congress of all the republics
of American was held here and that suggested the Exposition to Buffalo
people. The delegates to that first congress of representative men, seeking
nothing but an improvement of the business relations of all the countries
they spoke for, might have been held at Washington, New York or Chicago,
but it wasn't. Perhaps it was because Niagara Falls, the most attractive
place on the continent in summer, was so near by. Perhaps because Buffalo
was hospitable and enterprising. Perhaps a dozen things. Why is it some
people and some cities have things come their way? Who can explain it to
the captious? Anyhow, Buffalo cordially received the representatives of
the Pan-American republics who at the invitation of Secretary Blaine visited
the United States and improved the acquaintance of their peoples with those
of the big republic.

The paper goes on to say,

"Buffalo may be a wonder
in the estimation of her own people. Wonders are not always attractive
to the cold eye of the impartial stranger, and the Canadian air does not
echo to the tread of the wild mob's million feet hurrying to the Pan-American."

Now in all kindness is that
a fair representative attitude? Surely our Canadian friends are as ready
as any others to look at what interests them, whether it is on that side
or this of the Niagara border. They have always been ready to come to Buffalo
from the nearby cities of the Dominion on holidays. Why should they be
any less willing to enjoy a greater attraction than Buffalo or any city
on the continent except Chicago has given them?

The "menace" to the Pan-American
seems to be something a little forced - the product of a sanctum atmosphere.
It cannot be believed that it is in any sense representative of the general
conditions in the Dominion or elsewhere.

June 18: The police
are searching for a nervy thief who robbed Miss Lillian Downey, cashier
of a Midway show at the Pan-American, of $25 early last evening. The theft
was accomplished so boldly and successfully that the police believe the
crook was a professional.

Miss Downey sells tickets
for her show in a little box-like office, just inside the entrance leading
to the place. Shortly before 7 o'clock last night she was engaged in counting
up the afternoon's receipts. The night crowd had just begun to gather and
the barkers on the Midway were trying to get people to enter the various
shows with their fog-horn voices.

Miss Downey sold a couple
of tickets to a countryman and his wife and resumed her task of counting
the money. Watching her was a young man dressed like young sports who are
seen at running races. He suddenly stepped up to the little office, threw
down a quarter on the counter and said, "Gimme a ticket."

As Miss Downey reached for
one the fellow suddenly made grab for a roll of bills and before she could
realize what was going on he had taken it and skipped out. Miss Downey
screamed and told the barker she had just been robbed. The thief by that
time was running away like a deer. The barker and several other men followed
him for a couple of hundred feet, but he disappeared in the crowd and made
his escape.

The Exposition police were
notified but failed to find the crook. This morning James Francis Brown,
proprietor of the shows and Miss Downey went to Police Headquarters and
told the story of the robbery to Chief of Detectives Cusack. He detailed
two detective-sergeants to work on the case. They have little hope of capturing
the thief.

June 19: The Indians
of the Indian Congress have the power to make new Indians out of their
white brothers. They can do it almost on sight, but prefer to take a little
longer time and follow the form laid down in what they call "Long Running
Ritual". Last evening, they got together and in a half-hour's time adopted
three well-known gentlemen into their mysteries. The entire outfit, seven
hundred chiefs, warriors, squaws and papooses, took part in the ceremony.
Joseph Stevens of this city, who is vice-president of the Indian Congress
and Village Company, H.S. Grimes, a prominent grain man who, just the other
day, was re-elected president of the National Grain Dealers' Association,
and George Kricker, a prominent Ohio banker, were the gentlemen who were
made Indians and were given Indian names. Mr. Stevens was adopted into
the Sioux nation and named "Good Feeling Old Man." Mr. Grimes was taken
into the Apaches, called "Big Wheat Man" and Mr. Kricker was made a Winnebago
and titled "Big Count Money Man."

The recommendation of some
prominent scout or chief is required in order to be adopted into a tribe
and have your name recorded on the sacred parchments of the Indians. Eagle
Eye, a famous scout, last evening made the recommendations. It is also
required of the candidates that they contribute money and pay for a feast.
The feast of last evening cost, all told, $100. Three steers were slaughtered,
answering the purpose of buffalo and deer meat. Some of Chief Little Wound's
aged wine was uncorked. It is claimed that this wine is as old as the mountains.
The sparkle on it is as bright as the sun's rays on the water's surface.

The adoption dance is a hair-raising
institution, especially for the candidates. In the present instance they
were almost clotheless. Around them the red men danced, yelling at the
top of their voices and waving madly tomahawks and scalping knives. The
crack marksman completed the rest by seeing how close to each one's right
ear he could put a poisoned arrow. It is all over now and the new-made
Indians are glad of it.

Iron Bull, 31 years old,
and Bear Eagle, aged 33, both Sioux Indians, were taken to the Sisters'
Emergency Hospital last evening. Iron Bull is dying of consumption. Bear
Eagle has inflammation of the bladder and it is feared will die. The medicine
man practiced all his dances and frights on them but could not drive the
illness away. He reported that the Indian spirits could not cure. The prominent
chiefs thereupon ordered the sick Indians turned over to the white man's
spirits. Before taking departure the Indians got out their gourds, rattle
them over the ill red men, and begged that the Indian spirits be not mad
for turning the Indians over to the white men. This is the Indian service
on sending sick Indians to the white man's care.

June 20: The burden
of exhibitors in the Horticultural Building, and perhaps elsewhere at the
Pan-American Exposition, is the grafting propensities of a host of petty
officials. To illustrate the evil it will be necessary to describe the
fate of the Idaho cherries that arrived one day last week.

The cherries were truly delicious,
but then they were few, and their unprotected condition as strangers in
a strange land should have kept them from the rapacity of official cormorants.
They had not been thoroughly inspected before the superintendent of this
and that came along, his whiskers curling with anticipation.

"My, ain't then snollygosters?"
he exclaimed with enthusiasm. "Where did they grow? May I taste one?"

He was invited to help himself
and did so, promptly and liberally. He ate and talked, and cackled and
gobbled, and at the finish he took away a quart to remember Idaho by. His
footsteps were still clumping down the aisle when the superintendent of
that-and-the-other came along.

"When! What whoppers! I am
just dying for a taste of one of them!" exclaimed Super No. 2. Mr. Bashor,
who was in charge, saved his life, but I guess he mentally hoped his guest
would choke. The guest didn't, although he laid the foundations for an
attack of hog cholera before he got through. When he went away it was with
another basket full.

Then Super No.1 came
back and said those cherries were so exquisite he must take a box straight
to the "Dee Gee". He got away with them, but it is a good bet that those
cherries never got as far as the "Dee Gee". Then a man who does errands
about the building came along and grafted a plateful, and then Super No.
2 came back and said he thought the Head Official in the building would
enjoy some of those cherries. He bore off a box which he probably cached
somewhere for his own suffering family. Then the man who sweeps the floor
happened along and got away with a plateful. Talk about those cherries
looking sick! It was a case of quick consumption.

The other exhibitors in the
building have had similar experiences. They are growing somewhat disgusted
with the trick, and unless it slows down something will go to the "Dee
Gee" one of these days, but it will not be a box of cherries.

June 21: Madamoiselle
Serpentella, a snake charmer in the Midway, was bitten twice by a Python
during the performance in Bostock's this morning. Women who witnessed the
attack shrieked and fainted and Serpentella was taken to the Emergency
Hospital.

During her act Serpentella
had occasion to lift from its box a cobra de capello, one of the most venomous
snakes in existence. It was a new specimen and has not been thoroughly
subjected. As Serpentella was about to lay it upon an easel the snake struck
her twice in the arm in quick succession.

Serpentella knew that prompt
measures were necessary to save her life, for the poison of the cobra doesn't
move through the veins like molasses in January. She flew to a case upon
a table near by and, before spectators had stopped screaming, she swallowed
an antidote and applied an antiseptic, both of her own composition.

In the meantime the Emergency
ambulance had arrived and she was taken to the hospital. The surgeons
bandaged her forearm so as to stop the circulation and then extracted the
venom from the veins with a pump.

June 22: This is Smith
College Day at the Exposition and the alumnae and undergraduates of the
famous Northhampton institution are in evidence all over the grounds. The
first official celebration of the day was held at the Women's building
this morning when the Smith College girls "of the then and now" gathered
for a reunion and informal meeting.

The occasion was marked by
impromptu speeches from prominent alumnae, the singing of college songs,
the renewal of acquaintances and a general good time. After the gathering
at the Women's building, the "Smith girls" scattered about the grounds
for a general view of the Exposition.

The programme of the day
included a lunch at the Stadium restaurant at 1:30 p.m. and from 4 to 6
p.m. a tea at the Women's building, given by the Women's Board of Managers
to the alumnae and undergraduates of Smith College.

June 23: By the latest
order of the director general, women are barred from the ballyhoos or outside
shows on the Midway. The order was issued yesterday and went into effect
today. It is reported that all the showmen are to be prevented from exhibiting
their dancers outside the entrances to their shows because some few of
these exhibitions were thought to be objectionable by the public.

The woman ballyhoo feature
was discontinued at the Chicago Exposition for about the same reason, it
is reported, and the management of the Pan-American has decided not to
be behind the World's Fair in running a clean Midway. Though some of the
concessionaires object to the order, others favor it. The division is about
equal.

Today the concessionaires
are to meet at the director general's office to adjust their lighting bills
for May. Though all were charged for lighting from May 1, few were able
to obtain any kind of illumination at all until the 10th of the month,
and after that the service broke down on several occasions. The concessionaires
refused to pay their bills unless the Exposition agreed to cut them down
and from a letter sent out calling the conference it looks as though the
Midway men will win their point.

June 24: "Zum
Exposition" is the watchword of the thousands of Germans who are gathering
in Buffalo today, from the North and East, and from the South and West,
to attend the great Saengerfest. With those who came to the city yesterday
and early this morning, visiting the Exposition was put at the head of
the most important urgent business. And so, as soon as the gates were manned
by ticket sellers at 8 o'clock the joyous Germans came. They wore badges
and broad smiles of pleasurable anticipation glowed upon their good-natured
looks.

In honor of the Saengerfest
there will be two organ recitals in the Temple of Music today instead of
one. The first will be held at the regular time, 4 p.m. Charles E. Clemens
of Cleveland will play. The second will be at 8 p.m. with Dr. Isaac
Barton at the organ. The programme for both concerts is varied and pleasing.

Old Exposition men say that a sure
test of a good day is a big early morning crowd. "Saengerfest" day
will probably be a hummer.

June 25:
Gardeners at the Exposition are busy today installing a fine floral exhibit
in the court north of the Horticulture Building near the canal, which is
made by the Detroit Park and Boulevard Commission. The exhibit will be
one of the finest at the Exposition, and the only regret felt by Supt.
William D. Healy of the Detroit Park system is that the exhibit could not
be placed in the Court of Flowers in front of the Horticulture Building.

Detroit prides itself on
its beautiful parks and, although this exhibit is made under disadvantages
which would have discouraged many men, Supt. Healy set to work today to
make up for lost time and the neglect of a previous park administration
to make proper preparations, and he will present a display which will well
represent the park system of the City of the Straits.

Supt. Healy brought from
Detroit about 45,000 plants, including a large and fine exhibit of palms
which occupy a center bed in the plat, the palms alone valued at over $2000.
The plat is 60 by 95 feet, somewhat smaller than originally planned and
therefore curtailing the exhibit considerably. The bed of palms is 15 by
30 feet, and contains some unusually fine specimens.

A prominent feature of the
grouping of beds is a large shield in the center of the north section of
the group which will contain in beautiful flowers the inscription, "Compliments
of the Detroit Park and Boulevard Commission". Other beds are four of canna,
four of coleus, two of crotons and two of acalipha, with smaller groupings
scattered so as to effectively set off the others and correspond harmoniously
with the sodding. The commission is spending something like $3000 to make
the exhibit which will be well worth seeing. It is made mainly through
the efforts of Commissioner R.E. Bolger and Supt. Healy of the Detroit
Commission. Supt. Healy will return home tomorrow, to come back to the
Exposition later in the season.

June 26:
Two trolley cars, Elmwood Avenue No. 626 and Main Street No. 678, came
together with a crash opposite the Elmwood Avenue gate of the Exposition
at noon today, badly shaking up the occupants and throwing six people into
hysterics, two of whom were taken to the Exposition Hospital.

The Elmwood car was slowing
down to let off passengers and the Main Street car was coming after it.
A Michigan Avenue car ahead stopped unexpectedly, and the Elmwood Avenue
motorman came to a sudden stop. The Main Street car jammed into the rear
platform of the Elmwood Avenue car putting it out of commission. Passengers
on both cars were standing up, and they tumbled into heaps, some of them
began to cry and moan, but no one was badly hurt. Those most severely shaken
up were J.C. Holmes, Batavia, N.Y., N.R. Pratt and C. D. Easton, Silver
Springs, Miss A. M. LeValley, Buffalo, Mis Prinavue, New York, Mrs. A.V.
Shiverick, Chicago.

Miss Prinavue is employed
at the Japanese village. She went to the General Hospital two weeks ago
suffering from hysteria and this was her return trip to the Exposition.
After the accident she went to the Exposition Hospital with Mrs. Shiverick.
Both women were put to bed, but no injuries beyond the shock were discovered.

June 27:
Color, electricity and hydraulics, the three most potent zenii of the earth
and air united to give a grand display on the 25th. There were not many
of he teeming multitudes at the Exposition that saw it, but those who did
departed with yet another vision of the Rainbow City whose indescribable
splendors rendered the beholders speechless with their dazzling glories.

The display occurred in connection
with the first exhibition of the electric fountain in the Park lake. After
months of hard work, after several vexatious delays and one or two grievous
disappointments, Chief of Construction Rustin turned on the water last
night and set in motion the wondrous electric lighting machinery. Although
yet not at its best, the Electric Fountain was a supremely dazzling spectacle.

Visitors hitherto have seen
the beautiful sheen of the searchlights in the Grand Basin as they were
converged upon the cascades in front of the tumultuous torrent that rolls
from the niche in the Electric Tower. They have beheld the lily jets near
the same cascades that waver tremulously above the lights like vases of
molten silver, and the spray jets that leaped over the concealed lights
in the Grand Basin like a shower of sparks from a blacksmith's anvil, and
have admired the colored lights in the basin of the Court of Fountains
that look like fairy rings. But they never beheld as delightful a vision
as they saw last night when the Electric Fountain was started.

The water pouring from the
jets assumes various fantastic forms, including pine trees, sheaves of
wheat, pyramids, lilies, fans and mist banks. These were subjected to an
ever moving, kaleidoscopic play of light green, blue, red and white, causing
the water drops to resemble in turn showers of rubies, sapphires, topazes
and emeralds.

The site of the fountain,
the little island in the North Bay, is homely enough to be called the Isle
du Diable. Even the electric lights have no power to transfigure the ugliness
of its broken rock surface.

In a chamber below the jets
are set 22 glass plates to permit the projection of the rays of powerful
arc lights upward to the water jets. The levers which control the several
systems of piping and combinations of orifices for the water are operated
down in this chamber, as well as the horizontal colored glass screens that
are to be interposed between the arc lights and the hoes in the ceiling.
Of course, these holes, called "holophote openings", are made absolutely
water tight to prevent leakage from the basin of the fountain. The pumps
which force the water from the various orifices are also placed in the
subterranean apartment.

June 28: Senator
Patterson of the Ohio Commission stated this afternoon that he was confident
that President McKinley would be in Buffalo on July 18, when the Ohio building
will be dedicated. This is down on the calendar of Ohio Day, and naturally
the commission want the President to time his trip to the Pan-American
for that day.

The directors of the Pan-American,
however, want the President of the United States to come on a day of his
own. They want the benefit of his visit as a national event on some day
to be known as President's Day. Gov. Nash has taken the subject up with
McKinley, and it will be known in a day or two how it will be. The President
will be going to Canton in a little while with Mrs. McKinley, and it will
be an easy run from there to Buffalo.

June 29: The
bull ring of the Streets of Mexico was given over to an amateur acrobatic
performance yesterday afternoon. It was an impromptu affair, growing out
of man's cupidity. Concessionaire McGarvie announced recently that he had
made up a purse of $10, which he proposed to fasten between the horns of
one of his most ferocious bulls. Anyone who succeeded in snatching the
purse from the bull's head, he said, could have the coin.

It is presumed that Mr. McGarvie
made the offer in a joking way, but the report had no sooner been circulated
that a dozen men came forward as candidates for an engagement with his
Bullship. Accordingly it was arranged to pull off the affair after a regular
bull fight yesterday afternoon. When the announcer proclaimed the event,
not a dozen, but 21 men appeared to reach for the ten. The candidates for
the ready money were of all degrees of Midway society and four were strangers
whose greed for gain induced them to leave the spectators' seats and enter
the arena.

In less than two minutes
after the bull entered the ring the crowd saw an exhibition of vaulting
and tumbling like that of a three-ring circus. The bull was one of the
ugliest brutes in Mr. McGarvie's collection, and if the precaution had
not been taken to have the animal's horns padded, yesterday would have
been a field day for the Exposition Hospital. After 40 minutes' rich entertainment
the bull was still money in.

June 30: The
Minneapolis Newsboys' Band is coming to the Exposition in August and application
has been made for its use of Camp Millard Fillmore at the Pan-American
during its stay here. The band will be one of the great musical attractions
of the season at the Exposition.

The organization is of special
interest because it plays with rare ability and is composed of newsboys
of Minneapolis. It numbers 50 pieces and has been organized for four years,
its beginning dating from a whistling contest that revealed such musical
faculty on the part of some of the boys in it that the idea of a band composed
of such material was suggested. It was carried out by the Minneapolis Journal.
The managers of that paper reached the heart of the boys, bought them the
finest instruments and engaged the best instructor and the result is seen
in the now famous organization.

The band is said to have
a great influence for good in Minneapolis, since it stimulates the boys
as they come along to try for the band. The number is limited to 50, and
there are 25 on the waiting list. It shows what possibilities are in the
street "Arab", for it is constantly recruited from that source.

The band will receive a glowing
welcome when it comes out to charm the Rainbow City.